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4:00 PM ET, May 11, 2020

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Ben Smith / New York Times:
As Australian and French regulators plan to make tech companies pay publishers for news content, leaders from Ireland to Malaysia say they are paying attention  —  News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news.  Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen.
Max Willens / Digiday:
Six months after the glitzy launch of Facebook News, sources at seven publishers say they have seen little impact as the company focuses on other things  —  Publishers who are used to seeing Facebook launch a new product with much fanfare, then have momentum fizzle, are starting to get a familiar feeling.
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Trump calls for NBC to fire Chuck Todd after Meet the Press acknowledges “inadvertently and inaccurately” editing a clip of an interview with AG William Barr  —  President Trump spent much of his Sunday holiday sharing more than 100 tweets and retweets, bouncing between wishing everyone a …
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:
Twitter says it will add labels and warning messages to tweets about COVID-19 with misleading or disputed content and plans to expand the labels to other topics  —  (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19 …
CNN:
Some OAN staff say they were embarrassed by a Friday report from the channel promoting a fringe conspiracy theory, and the segment was pulled out of TV rotation  —  It pains me to lead this newsletter with un-reliable sources, but sometimes it's necessary.  Right now is one of those times.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump, devoid of a plan to combat COVID-19, is relying on the media to amplify his lies and spin; instead, the focus should be on experts and personal stories  —  Comparing the number of deaths from covid-19 to those caused by car crashes never made any sense.  But the gimmick caught on anyway.
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify announces Group Sessions in beta, letting multiple Premium users control a listening session  —  Share DJ time with your quarantine buddies  —  Spotify is giving premium users a new feature that'll allow them to share DJ duties with anyone in their immediate vicinity.
Travis Andrews / Washington Post:
Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo say they are removing a viral 26-minute trailer for “Plandemic”, a conspiracy film that features well-known anti-vaxxers  —  Social media companies including YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook are removing a viral conspiracy theory video because of its claims regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
Sarah Jones / New York Magazine:
National Labor Relations Board on Friday ruled against every objection raised by Hearst to the bargaining unit proposed by the WGAE and ordered a union election  —  When the editorial staff of Hearst Magazines decided to form a union with the Writers Guild of America, East, they expected some resistance from their powerful employer.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Spotify says it has partnered with Indian music label Saregama to bring more than 100,000 songs in over two dozen languages to users in India  —  Spotify has secured another deal in India to fill much of the remaining void in its catalog in the country.  —  The Swedish music streaming service …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Vanity Fair quietly updates an article that claimed Trump-aligned investors had “acquired” a stake in OANN, saying the group is “in negotiations”  —  “Updates” do a lot of work in journalism these days.  Sometimes they are used to denote simple amplifications to fast-moving online news stories.
 
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